Category Archives: World
The best political predictions are the ones that no one checks up on afterwards
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m fast approaching the tenth anniversary of setting up this blog, and to mark that, I’ve been going through my old posts. It’s interesting looking back and seeing what was important back then – and how different blogging was back when it was all just fields round here, and there were [...]
A women’s Tour of Britain
Jennie’s post on the Tour de France coming to Yorkshire reminded me of a Twitter conversation I had a while ago with Richard Gadsden where we discussed the possibility of creating a major women’s cycling race in Britain. One of the reasons for the Tour de France coming here in 2014 is because cycling is [...]
#Colchester bus station waiting room opening hours extended
Many people have asked for the waiting room at the new bus station to be open for longer hours, and I’m happy to report that after discussions with various people, we’ve been able to get them extended. The waiting room will now be open for these hours: Monday to Saturday: 6am to 9pm Sunday: 6am [...]
Boris is wrong. Again.
It’s amazing how far you can go with funny hair and the ability to say ‘cripes!’ isn’t it? For a start, you can get straight past the Telegraph sub-editors and fact-checkers and bring out this little nugget of non-information: a new building like the Shard needs four times as much juice as the entire town [...]
(Re)drawing the lines
I have been informed that the Local Government Boundary Commission for England are planning to review the boundaries for Colchester Borough over the next couple of years. (This is the ward boundaries within the Borough, not the size and shape of the Borough as a whole) I was expecting this to happen soon, as the [...]
Thoughts on the night-time economy, in Colchester and elsewhere
I spent several cold hours out in Colchester last Saturday night as part of the Castle Ward night of action. Since I’ve been a councillor, I’ve been out in the town centre on Friday and Saturday nights several times to see what happens there, and I know that the issue of the night-time economy is [...]
Blatant plugging
For my ‘official’ Facebook page, which now has an easily memorable address: www.facebook.com/nickbarlowcolchester It’s where I’ll try and post things that are relevant to my work as a councillor, rather than the general theme of this blog which tends to revolve around whatever shiny thing is grabbing my magpie-like attention at the time. I have [...]
Colchester Trees for Years 2013
Just had an email through with details of the Council’s Trees For Years scheme for next year. As has happened in previous years, the Council will be giving out 2,013 trees, shrubs and bushes to Colchester residents to help make the Borough a greener place. Next year’s event will be taking place on Saturday 2nd [...]
Castle Ward night of action
Following the day of action in the ward on Thursday, there was a night of action in and around the town centre last night. Unlike the day of action, this was something we couldn’t tell people about before because advance knowledge of it happening could have affected the success of it. (It’s hard to catch [...]
Castle Ward Day of Action
Today’s the Castle Ward Day of Action, with people from lots of difference agencies (including Essex Police and the Council) carrying out a variety of different tasks around the ward. There’s a lot more information about it here, and if you’re in town there’s an information booth in Culver Street West (outside Halifax) with representatives [...]
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